Volvo P1800 Jensen Restoration

This Volvo P1800 Jensen bodywork was delivered to the workshop of Classic Job for restoration. The car was sold new in the USA. The Volvo P1800 Jensen is a very rare Volvo, only 6000 examples were built from 1960 until 1963. From 1963 the production was moved from the UK to Sweden and the car was named Volvo 1800 S (Sverige). After the last owner no longer saw any use for the P1800 many decades ago, the car was left alone in an unfriendly and moist environment for many years. The metal of the bodywork shows the typical rust of dilapidation under the open sky attacked by rain, sun, and heat. The surface of the metal shows spots everywhere, and places where water got trapped are rusted through. As you can see in the photo report, much of the sheet metal from the waist down was renewed. After the sheet metal job was done the body was dipped in a special bath to remove all dust and dirt. Then the bodywork was given a black KTL coating (E-coat) in a special electrostatic paint bath process in where a special primer covers all the surfaces and seams of the metal bodywork in a corrosion proof base coating. This coating also finds its way to all the hollow spaces of the bodywork which can not be reached with standard painting processes. With the KTL coating applied the outside of the body was given a layer of epoxy spray putty. The putty will be sanded down to smoothen out the remaining tiny spots. The next steps will be smoothening of the entire bodywork, the application of primer, and the final paintwork.

To be continued.